Coordinated education and demonstration projects for vendors and users are essential to achieve broad adoption of the standard in veterinary medicine. Other activities not yet planned.

Short-Term Objectives

Develop diagrams to support positioning and orientation definitions.

Work with veterinary IHE implementations as issues arise.

Current Status

No CPs under current consideration

Current Work Items

None

Long-term Objectives

Maintain breed and species code lists.

Challenges and Opportunities

DICOM has become a well-accepted standard in veterinary medicine. Most companies in the market must support DICOM or be considered non-viable. A vendor-neutral “showdown” is held annually to assess DICOM file conformance, and CStore capability.

Maintaining broad participation and focus is an ongoing challenge.

WG 25 recognizes that there could be numerous advantages of using SNOMED CT breed terminology, but the DICOM Standard uses RT terminology. We hope to find an opportunity to incorporate CT concepts into areas of the standard that can benefit from them.

Risks

Veterinary DICOM structures could diverge from other standards (HL7, SNOMED) if careful study of these other standards is not pursued in conjunction with this process.

User lack of understanding could slow development and adoption of standards.